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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: "'John Fremlin'" <chief@bandits.org>,
	"'Simon Richter'"
	<Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>,
	"Acpi-PM (E-mail)"
	<linux-power@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>,
	"'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:09:28 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15070.4248.813990.765006@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDDD9D@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDDD9D@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com>


Grover, Andrew writes:
 > IMHO an abstracted interface at this point is overengineering.

ACPI is the epitome of overengineering.

An abstracted interface would allow simpler systems to avoid all of
the bloated garbage ACPI brings with it.  Sorry, Alan hit it right on
the head, ACPI is not much more than keeping speedstep proprietary.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-18 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-18 21:46 Let init know user wants to shutdown Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 22:09 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-04-18 22:30 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-19  2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-19 12:04 ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-18 22:52 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-26 22:10 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-18 18:28 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 18:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-18 19:36 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18  0:07 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18  0:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18  1:56   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 11:55     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 19:10       ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 20:10         ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 20:21           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 21:05           ` Avery Pennarun
2001-04-18 21:34             ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:02         ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-02 16:52           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:01     ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-20 23:41       ` John Fremlin
2001-04-21  7:54         ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-24  0:17         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-24  1:08           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-24 10:06           ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-25 14:28             ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-25 16:11             ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-18  1:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-17 16:45 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-17 19:54 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-17 22:23 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 15:26 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-18 19:51   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-16 23:32 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-17  6:40 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-17  6:41 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-17 11:16 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-12 17:25 David Balazic
2001-04-16  7:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-11 17:06 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-11 18:29 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11  4:31 alad
2001-04-10 17:05 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-11  4:23 ` John R Lenton
2001-04-11 14:59   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-11 15:10   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 14:56 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-04 22:02 Pavel Machek
2001-04-10 23:20 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:30   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:38   ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-04-10 23:46     ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-04-10 23:53     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:41   ` Mike Castle
2001-04-13  0:29     ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 12:42       ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 15:49         ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-16 16:25           ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 21:27             ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 21:44               ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 22:38                 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-17  6:16                   ` Simon Richter
2001-04-17  8:39                     ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-17 14:09                       ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 21:36         ` Ben Ford
     [not found] ` <9b04food@ncc1701.cistron.net>
     [not found]   ` <9b052eod@ncc1701.cistron.net>
2001-04-13  0:26     ` Pavel Machek

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